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ICE SHAVE.

No. 581,177. Patented Apr. 20, 1897.

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ArtNr CHARLES A. SOHWENK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ANI) ROBERT L.YVILSON, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

ICE-SHAVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 581,177, dated April20, 1897'. Application filed Tune 26, 1896. Serial No. 597,034. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, t may concern.-

Beit known that we, CHARLEs A. SCHWENK, residing at Philadelphia, in thecounty of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, and ROBERT L. WILSON,residing; at Camden. in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey,citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Ice-Shaves, of which the following is a specification. l

Our invention relates to a new and useful improvement in ice-shavingdevices, and has for its object to provide a device of this descriptionwhich shall be simple in construction, capable of being adjusted tovarious depths of cuts, and having the cutting-blade thereof providedwith two sizes of teeth in order that two kinds of shavings may beproduced; and with these ends in view our invention consists in thedetails of construction and combination of elements hereinafter setforth, and then specifically designated by the claim.

In order that thoseskilled in the art to which this invention appertainsmay understand how to make and u'se the same, we will describe itsconstruction and operation in detail, referring by letters to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which--Figure l is a section of the shoe and blade therein of our improvement;Fig. 2, a plan view thereof, and Fig. 3 a detailed perspective of theblade.

In carrying out this invention we form a shoe A, by casting orotherwise, through which is an opening B of sufficient size to permitthe upward passage of the shavings when formed, and upon the uppersurface of the shoe, which stands at a considerable angle to the bottomthereof, is placed the blade C.

D is a block arranged to bear upon the blade by being passed under thepin E, which is secured in the sides of the shoe, and F is a thumb-screwthreaded through the upper end of this block, so that it may also bearupon the blade. By this arrangement the blade maybe adjusted to anydistance below the bottom surface of the shoe by backing off the screwand when so adjusted may be again firmly held by forcing the screwthereagainst.

It will be seen by reference to Fig. I that the pin E fits within asuitable groove in the upper side of the block, thus serving as apivot-point on said block, so that when pressure is brought to bear uponthe blade by the screw the upper end of said block will be forcedupward, thereby forcing the lower end after the manner of a leveragainst thelower 5o portion of said blade.

G is a receptacle, of any desired shape, which is secured to the upperside of the shoe and has an opening in the bottom thereof whichregisters with the opening B in said shoe, and this receptacle isprovided with a hinged ,cover H, whereby it may be closed. The rear wallof said receptacle is curved and lies against the bottom of the blade todirect the products toward the front, enabling 7o the receptacle to becompletely filled.

From this description the operation of our improvement wili be obviouslyas follows: The blade having been set so that the teeth I project to asuiiicient distance below the surface of the shoe it is only necessaryto grasp the handle J and move the shoe back andforth upon the surfaceof the ice after the manner of a plane, when the teeth will gouge acertain amount of said ice from the 8o block, and these shavings will becaused to pass upward into the receptacle, from whence they may beremoved by opening the cover.

If the shavings formed by the teeth I are too coarse for certain uses,finer shavings maybe produced by turning the blade end for end, so as tobring the teeth K into operative position, and this is quickly done bybacking off this setscrew, as before described. By this arrangement acheap and 9o effective device is provided, by the use of which shavingsof various widths and thicknesses may be produced.

Ve are aware that devices for shaving ice have been heretofore producedwhich contemplate the use of a shoe and blade attached thereto, and wetherefore do not wish to be understood as laying claim, broadly, tosuch.

Having thus fully described our invention,

what we claim as new and useful is roo As a new artiele of manufact-ure,aniceshave consisting of a shoe7 said shoe having an opening formed inits bottom, a slantin g rear face leading to said opening7 side flangesformed on said shoe, a pin extending from side to side, a block plaeedunder the pin and a serew threaded through said bloek7 a reversibleblade plaeed between the block and the rear wall, the lower end of saidblade projecting below the lower faee of the shoe, a receptacle betweenthe side flanges and secured thereto, the rear wall of the receptaclebeing Curved forward and adapted to bear against the bottoni of theblade and a Cover hinged to the top of said receptacle, as and 15 forthe purpose described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our signatures in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES A. SCHWENK. RQBT. L. \VILSON.

\\'itnesses to C. A. Schwenk:

S. S. WILLIAMSON, MARK BUForD.

lVitnesses to R. L. \Vilson:

L. C. MORRISON, EDWARD BALL.

